[Bug-gnulib] anyone using bumpalloc module?

From:

Paul Eggert

Subject:

[Bug-gnulib] anyone using bumpalloc module?

Date:

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:01:33 -0700

The bumpalloc module has some real problems. It doesn't handle
integer overflow correctly when the buffers get huge. It has O(N**2)
behavior when buffers get huge, where it should have at worst O(N log
N).
Jim and I recently revamped coreutils so that it no longer uses
bumpalloc. I don't know of any other package that uses bumpalloc so I
propose that it be removed from gnulib. There is a need for a module
like bumpalloc, but it'd be easier to write one from scratch.